Top 1200 Poet Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 12, 2024.
Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.
You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.
If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
One Oxford poet confessed to me that I had been scary because I talked American and wore tennis shoes.
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn.
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.
But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place
Where the banished poet has gone
And the night that comes with quickened pace
Is ignorant of dawn.
The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.
I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses.
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.
I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
There's this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body.
I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems.
So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.
Novelist and poet David Huddle is a quiet but fabulous writer, and he does adolescent longing better than anyone I know.
It is not easy to describe the present position of legal opinion on advertising and free speech. Only a poet can capture the essence of chaos.
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
